Evette

Where Evette comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Evette.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Evette through the years
  1. 1919
    First appearance
    #4,814 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1965
    Evette de Klerk born
    South African sprinter
  3. 1967
    Peak, #617
    236 babies named Evette, the most in any year.
  4. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,175.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, a spelling variant of Yvette, confused with Eve.
Namesakes
  • Evette de Klerk · South African sprinter, born 1965
  • Evette Dionne · American culture writer

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.